Meaning and example
the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft
The passage used "disembarkation" to mean the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.577 places disembarkation in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 72% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
confabulationRare
- Known by
- 72.2%
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- 71.7%
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jurisprudenceRare
- Known by
- 71.5%
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
exculpateRare
- Known by
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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